It's the first race at PIR since their crews brawled in the garage area last November. All Bowyer and Gordon have to do is watch any racing show and those highlights are in commercials to promote the race and the sport.

Bowyer's crew tried to get to Gordon after he parked his car. Bowyer, after parking on pit road, sprinted into the garage to try to confront Gordon. He was stopped by NASCAR security at Gordon's hauler.

"I had a lot of good ones (here) and one bad one," Bowyer said when asked about his memories on PIR. "I've had a lot of good memories. One was really bad. That's my answer."

Bowyer wouldn't speak with Gordon a few weeks later during the NASCAR awards weekend in Las Vegas. They apparently talked briefly when they both were on P. Diddy's yacht on New Year's Eve in St. Barts.

While he has said he is moving on the past couple of months, Bowyer has not said whether he will retaliate against Gordon.

"It's hard to get away from it," Gordon said. "They're still using it to advertise for the race and it was a big story. We're really focused on this new car.

"Luckily we've got enough things going on that it takes your mind off of it once you get out there on the track. We're just focused on getting the most out of the car and having a good, solid, and fast racecar and a good weekend. So, at this point, I'm not thinking about it."

But what if Bowyer gets behind him during the race?

"I'm going to race him the way that I've always raced him," Gordon said. "We'll race hard. We'll race hard for position and hopefully we don't have any incidents.

"I can't run every lap worrying about every guy I've ever had an incident with."

Bowyer co-owner Michael Waltrip vowed to be a little better prepared for a repeat of November.

"You want to see enthusiasm and passion," Waltrip said. "There's a great video of Clint running somewhere. … While he was running and everybody was running, I was standing there thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do?'

"But we didn't have a policy in place for that type of occurrence. And now we do. I know what I'm supposed to do now: Chase Clint."